[comp.sys.ibm.pc] 1.44 Mbyte drive in a 6 Mhz AT

danderer@sun.udel.edu (Dave Anderer) (07/09/90)

I just replaced the 360K B: drive in my original, genuine IBM AT with a
3.5", 1.44 Mbyte drive.  Note this is the ORIGINAL AT - 6 Mhz, 20 Mbyte
hard disk, old keyboard, etc.

I've put the following into CONFIG.SYS:

	devparam=^A/d:1 /s:18


However, the drive will only read and write 720K diskettes.  It won't
format or recognize previously formatted diskettes at 1.44 Mbyte.

What's wrong, and what do I do to fix it?

Rumor has it it's a bios that won't support this capacity.  For what it's
worth.
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